Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition

Installing MongoDB and using the shell

MongoDB can be easily installed on any platform. On Ubuntu 18.04, we need to perform some steps before running the apt-get command:

sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install -y mongodb

Once you've installed it, check whether the mongo process is running. If not, you can start the MongoDB daemon using the following command:

systemctl start mongod

If the user is root, you can drop the sudo keyword before each command.

We can also download MongoDB manually from the website and copy it to /usr/local/bin. To do this, we have to create an init script for the server since the server stops when the system is shut down. We can use the nohup tool to run the server in the background. Usually, it is better to install ...